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I headed out to Bare Island a few weeks ago expecting an average sunset but was greeted with a pretty good one! There must have been more than 10 photographers there (with tripods).

There weren't too many hoons around (A lamborgini did pull up around 2030 or so....) so it was rather tranquil.

For your C&C..

Hi Suren - that first one looks really posterised or something - have you overcompressed it or too low a res or something?

For me I like the last and then perhaps the first best compositionally.

Remorhaz wrote:have you overcompressed it or too low a res or something?

Yeah it looks pretty pixelated at my end.

Looks like a very tidy sunset there and you have captured the colours quite well.

First impression when lookign at them was there seems to be some dead space that could be cropped out, as usual my pano obsession could have somethign to do with this train of thought, nonetheless, here goes;

1) Symmetry about the horizon not ringing my bell, how about cropping some sky off? that leading line of the rocks to the bridge is too good to crop so thats outta the question imo. 2/3rds foreground and 1/3rd sky? I also reckon you could wrangle some effect outta that water (smoothing wise and texture)- if your keen post up a largeish jpegs or email me one - I have a few tweaks that may/may not work.

2) hmm, I like this one, second thoughts, no need for a crop on this one, just jazz up the foreground a fraction with a bit of d-lighting or levels/curves?

3) favourite! crop off the bottom for symmetry about the horizon - that light reflection adds nice interest. The more I look at this one the more I like it. Top stuff..

Nice work on looking away from teh sunset, often that is where the nice colours and tones are!